People's Revolutionary Party

The People's Revolutionary Party (PRP) was a Marxist-Leninist political party in South Vietnam which existed from 1962 to 1976. It was founded on 1 January 1962 to combat imperialism, feudalism, and colonialism in Vietnam, and, while it was not explicitly a communist party, it represented the Marxist-Leninists of South Vietnam. It operated in small cells, and between 1 and 7 cells formed a chi bo, the street or hamlet-level unit of the party. It was the leading force in the National Liberation Front, along with the Democratic Party of Vietnam and the Radical Socialist Party of Vietnam, and, in 1976 - after the reunification of Vietnam - it merged with the ruling Workers' Party of Vietnam in North Vietnam to form the modern Communist Party of Vietnam.